THE NEW LABOUR PROJECT

‘Socialist citizenship would offer more than a package of benefits. It would be founded upon people’s energy and confidence to take personal responsibility, to be agents of social change, to shoulder obligations to society, to give support to others, as well as to claim their individual rights. But individuality must be matched by a sense of community. The rights and needs we share in common are a prerequisite for people to have an equal chance to satisfy their individual aspirations. Socialist citizenship would be about people participating in a community together.’

Manifesto for New Times (Communist Party 1989)

‘The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we can live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.’

New Labour’s Clause Four (1994)

When the Communist Party broke up in the early 1990s, some defected to the Greens, some formed a new group called the Democratic Left (which was very sympathetic to Labour), and others supported the Labour Party. As can be seen from the above 2 quotes, there is little difference between the New Labour Clause Four and the dying Communist Party Manifesto for New Times. The similar waffle can be interpreted and used to railroad through a whole host of politically correct causes.

With the collapse of class war politics (the encouragement of working class hostility towards the middle and upper classes), both the communists and Labour were headed in the same direction. The adoption of race war politics (the encouragement of non-white hostility towards white people), extremist feminism, and militant gay rights - as well as a general attack on British society as a whole, and English society in particular.